Author: Dorothy WhitelockPublisher: Cambridge University PressISBN: 1107402212Size: 75.47 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, DocsView: 4489DownloadRead Online
This 1930 volume contains the original texts of the great majority of surviving Anglo-Saxon wills drawn up in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Author: Linda TollertonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdISBN: 1903153379Size: 14.73 MBFormat: PDF, ePub, MobiView: 5033DownloadRead Online
ight on the factors which influenced men and women in making appropriate A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-S

Author: Martin BiddlePublisher: Cambridge University PressISBN: 0521038650Size: 49.71 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 754DownloadRead Online
The bequests of clothing in this will are particularly interesting. Anglo-Saxon
testaments do not itemize elaborate garments as do some English wills of the
later Middle Ages;2 they refer to clothing only rarely, and then sometimes in
general terms.3 Wynflatd's will is unusual in mentioning several different items of
clothing and in specifying them more precisely.4 Descriptive references to non-
military clothing are uncommon in Old English texts generally. Although many
garment-names ...

Author: A. J. RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University PressISBN: 9780521178327Size: 73.72 MBFormat: PDF, DocsView: 7481DownloadRead Online
This volume, first published in 1939, draws together a significant number of vernacular documents from early medieval England.

Author: Hilda Roderick Ellis DavidsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdISBN: 9780851157160Size: 26.74 MBFormat: PDF, KindleView: 998DownloadRead Online
To read Beowolf is to be immediately aware of the aura of magical power the poet vested in the sword, and Hilda Ellis Davidson's other concern in this book is to look at literary sources for what they reveal of the quality of a good sword ...